Unmistakably Marilyn: "The Exhibition Explores How the Power of Photography Helped Transmute the Shy Norma Jeane into the Most Iconic Screen Goddess of All Time-The Myth That Is Marilyn Monroe."

I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe from the Leon and Michaela Constantiner Collection," which includes 200 photos of actress Marilyn Monroe by 39 photographers, presents portraits dating from 1945, when Monroe (then Norma Jeane Baker) was 19 years old, to images taken just a few weeks before her death in 1962 at the age of 36.

The collection can be viewed as a virtual who's who of photographers of the postwar period, and includes a unique series of 59 images shot by Bert Stern in 1962, titled "The Last Sitting." Behind-the-scenes photographs, pictures that capture private moments, and documentary footage of the actress during many periods of her career also …

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Publication information: Article title: Unmistakably Marilyn: "The Exhibition Explores How the Power of Photography Helped Transmute the Shy Norma Jeane into the Most Iconic Screen Goddess of All Time-The Myth That Is Marilyn Monroe.". Contributors: Not available. Magazine title: USA TODAY. Volume: 133. Issue: 2716 Publication date: January 2005. Page number: 28+. © 2009 Society for the Advancement of Education. COPYRIGHT 2005 Gale Group.

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